10-miler is like knight and day

Medieval-themed race is unlike most other events

11:31 PM,
Feb. 27, 2014

Written by

Lyn Dowling
| For FLORIDA TODAY

If all the tales that you remember are to be believed, at some point in the Dark Ages, a little boy was sent away from a tournament of arms to fetch his older brother's weapon.

He found instead a better idea: an enchanted sword in a magical stone which, according to Thomas Malory, a much later knight, was engraved with the words, "Whoso pulleth this sword from this stone is rightwise king born of all England."